• LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    My guy, America has the largest prison population in the world, more than big mean baddie China with X5 more people.

    This is BECAUSE of legalized slavery under our Constitution’s 13th Amendment.

    Every accusation is a confession.

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      2 days ago

      Yes, that’s the point. There’s no money available to be invested into the well-being of the state because they’re not currently investing money into the slave labor.

      In the US, there is money, it just goes to private prisons.

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        2 days ago

        Actual rehabilitation would be an investment that benefits our whole society a thousand times over, just not a handful billionaires. There’s more motive for them to make life worse for all of us in an ever steepening descent into slavery and extinction.

        This is just one reason capitalism is becoming an increasingly existential threat to our entire species and all other complex life on Earth. How can we stave off impending doom when there’s no parasitical get-rich-quick scheme solution to problems caused by parasitical get-rich-quick schemes?